Thursday, May 15, 2008

To Accomplish Weight Loss Goals Successfully

Maintaining the desirable weight during dieting is never easy, especially so during festive seasons or when there is a special occasion. How can you enjoy the parties or special events while still maintaining your weight. Following are tips to go along with your dieting effort.

1) Set achievable short term goals
Be more realistic and for example, do not set to lose forty pounds at one go. Concentrate on losing 3 or 5 pounds in the next two weeks to to come. You need to stay motivated and one of the way is to see you achieved "mini" goal in your dieting effort.

2) Recognise your effort so you don't feel so miserable
Basically, all human beings just loves recognition and rewards. If you have achieved your weight loss goals, treat yourself to something special, like a new watch, luxurious SPA or anything other than eating related.

3) Eat Healthy Snacks
Discipline is very important, avoid sweets and try eating healthy snacks instead. That doesn’t mean you will never be able to eat ice cream or cake again, but if you develop the habit of choosing snacks such as fresh fruit, raw vegetables, and other healthy snacks, you will seldom have a craving for those high calorie carbohydrates and sugars. Occasionally, enjoy small amount of sweet or cake is still alright so long as you don't exceeded your dieting goals. After all, you need to pamper yourself and stay motivated, furthermore we are not talking about having them all the time.

4) Enjoy Your Favorite Foods in Smaller Servings
Unless you eat a great deal of high calorie, high carbohydrate foods, there is no need to give up your favorite foods. The key is learning to eat smaller portions rather than depriving yourself of everything. Certainly for some people it may be necessary to completely eliminate some foods but if you are one of those people who are overweight because of eating too much, you need to cut your portions.

The perception - we need to eat until we are stuffed is almost in everybody's mind. This is probably unhealthy and in fact, we only need to eat until we are satisfied. Taking longer to eat is one of the best ways to satisfy hunger without eating more than the body requires. Learning to eat less will put you on the track to permanent weight loss and help you stay on target while you are losing weight.




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